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Covid-19: Kenya hits record high of 1,068 new cases
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe giving updates on the status of Covid-19 in the country on October 18, 2020 at Afya House in Nairobi.
Photo credit: Dennis Onsongo | Nation Media Group.
What you need to know:
- Number of recovered patients rises by 290 to 33,050.
- In terms of distribution per county, Nairobi had 305, the highest number of Covid-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours.
Kenya has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 positive cases in 24 hours. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe on Thursday said 1,068 people tested positive from 7,556 samples, bringing the total caseload to 47,212.
From the new cases, 1,044 are Kenyans while 12 are foreigners. In terms of gender distribution the CS said that 666 are male while 402 are female. The youngest case is a six-month-old infant while the oldest is 96 years old.
